PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Logging Violence and Corruption Flare in Ramu, Madang’s Mighty RainforestsLocal landowner initiated court case has shut down logging for two months. The PNG Forest Authority's review of the granting of the right to log to notorious Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia in Ramu River valley expected soon. Industry and corrupt government officials pulling out all stops to re-grant permit to this violent and corrupt criminal-enterprise. Massive cash payments and brutal violence – to intimidate communities resisting logging – is rife. Yet local protest to logging continues to intensify in Madang, as do calls to end all industrial primary rainforest logging in PNG.Protest Madagascar's Legalization of Rosewood Log Export from National ParksDelmas shipping, a subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA-CGM, is being pressured by the transitional Madagascar government to ship hundreds of containers of illegally logged ancient rainforest logs from Madagascar to China anytime soon. Post-coup illegal log and wildlife trade continue to threaten Madagacar's biodiversity rich rainforest remnants, ecological sustainability and future potential for national advancement. Let Madagascar's transitional government, shipping industry, and banks financing logging know they will be held responsible for these ecological crimes.Join Borneo's Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest DestructionMalaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation. Please insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves; halt rainforest destruction in Sarawak for oil palm, pulp plantations and hydro-electric dams; and ensure rainforest destruction and abuse of indigenous rights by Malaysian companies end globally.Campaign News Updates:· Malaysia: Borneo mega-dams proposal raises fears for tribes, wildlife [search]· Win Some, Lose Some for Beleaguered Penan Tribe [search]· Show More
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